“I've had to explain [Adenomyosis] so often and in an “elevator pitch” way so that people don't just discount it as, “Oh, mystery illness.” It's like, No, this is a uterine condition. It causes these things. This we know. And if you've never heard of it before, now you did. So we can stop saying, “Well, we're not going to research it because no one's ever heard of it.” Well, guess what? That's what I'm doing. I'm talking about it. ” — Emily, 5 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“If I stay up late, there's a good chance my adenomyosis is going to flare up. It does not like staying up late. And it will let me know it's time to go to bed. It will cramp up to the point of nausea. Either that or I sleep through it every night and it's just something that happens. But I don't know. I don't know. I can't explain my body or Adenomyosis.” — Emily, 5 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“You'll hear me in later episodes get bitter and jaded a bit about podcasting and the podcasting space. But these messages, this feedback, hearing from listeners, hearing from people who are finding the podcast and who are finding the podcast helpful, that, that is what keeps me coming back to the microphone over and over again, creating podcasts, wanting to help people create podcasts. This is why I did this. This is why I wanted to tell my story.” — Emily, 6 Months AFTER Eviction Day

“That's one of those fears I'm fighting with is, Well, is the pain going to be worse? Will it get better? Will it get better? The other thing is, Is my gas just painful? Am I just not going to the right doctor? Oh, all the questions and the doubts and everything.” — Emily, 5 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I think I'm going to make the list of those things that I would do every single day if I could. Those things that I wouldn't get sick of that would always bring me joy. The things that if I were told I wasn't able to do them anymore, I would be heartbroken.” — Emily, 6 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“As soon as you say surgery, out come the concerned faces. I don't want people to be concerned for me. I'm relatively excited about this! It's fun to give them that alleviation of, ‘No, no, no, this is a good thing!’” — Emily, 7 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I love you, normies. I try so hard to fit into the world that you have created, but alas, we need accommodations and hysterectomies. Accommodations and hysterectomies.” — Emily, 7 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“Oh, my gosh, these are so amazing. These make my legs and my thighs feel completely different. Wow. Is this what it's like when there's blood circulating? It was like I found another tool for adenomyosis. I even had that quick thought in my head of, did I just need compression socks this whole time?” — Emily, 8 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“My husband and I are at this point of, Hey, we know that the next few weeks are going to be shitty. Let's have a really good ‘fuck it all’ day. In ‘Parks and Rec’-speak, it would be a ‘Treat Yo' Self’ day.” — Emily, 9 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day.” — Emily, 9 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“If I'm moving, I'll stay warm. But also if I'm moving, I might not notice as much pain as I'm in until I sit down and then I realize, Oh, my gosh, I can't move for the rest of the day. I've used up all my spoons.” — Emily, 11 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I think I'm feeling good. I'm still a little nervous. I can't shake the nerves. And you know what? I think I need to radically accept that those nerves and that anxiety is going to be with me. It's probably not going to get easier as we get closer to surgery. I keep thinking I'll get used to the idea. Give me some time to get used to the idea. And then I'm like, Okay, I'm used to the idea. Wait, it's eleven days. Oh, I have so much more to do. And then I'm not used to the idea anymore.” — Emily, 11 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“Currently, the countdown is twelve days. Twelve days. So it's getting more real and time is going both very slowly and faster than I would like it to go as far as my to-do list.” — Emily, 12 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I keep thinking if I didn't have to deal with this stupid pain in my uterus right now, I could deal with everything else. And maybe that's not true. Maybe that's just the excuse I'm telling myself. But everything is a lot more irritating when I feel like I have a 15-pound rock in between my hips, pushing out, making me feel pregnant.” — Emily, 13 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I will not be capable of 100% Mom Mode that I've been in. And I can't even say 100% because I'll tell you, Adenomyosis, my period, PMS, they knock me out. So there are days where I am parenting from a couch or parenting from bed, and it sucks. And I don't even feel like 100% a parent. I feel like I'm doing the 100% I can do for that day.” — Emily, 13 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“Pre-surgery I was so worried about being a burden ... You know what's funny? I look at how much I did — and now I can do that, plus a whole lot more because so much of my time is not wrapped up dealing with pain anymore!” — Emily, Post-Op

“It's less than two weeks away. I have said to my family, I have zero shits for anything other than getting ready for this, for getting my business in order, for getting my work done, for getting the house ready for recovery. For getting me ready for recovery. I have zero shits.” — Emily, 13 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“I'm a curious person, and I've gotten to the point where I'm just going to ask now. I'm just going to ask about this stuff because it's my body. She was taking photos of my body. I should be able to see them, right?” — Emily, 14 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“If somebody starts talking about, “Oh, I'm thinking of going to the menstrual cup.” I'll be like, “Oh, my gosh, it's so great! I love it! I love it! It's so great … Except for when you drop it in the toilet and you have to get it.” — Emily, 15 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day

“This upcoming hysterectomy is giving me a real kick in the ass as far as productivity. And also it's exciting that I get to take a look at my business and I've been seeing where I've come from.”” — Emily, 15 Days Until Uterus Eviction Day